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You Can Come In
by Mahmoud Hojeij (2007, miniDV, RT: 23 min.)
Synopsis
When my father asked me to take his picture in front of our house in South Lebanon, I automatically thought of asking him to stand in front of the entrance so that the sign appearing on the front door would be part of the portrait. The image included my father, the house, the South, my family, my childhood, my education, filmmaking, war, Israel, and the sign, which read "You can come in". You could come into all of these if you stepped into the picture: the portrait I am still trying to make of my father.
Produced by Mahmoud Hojeij and Ashkal Alwan.
Filmmaker's Biography
Mahmoud Hojeij is a video artist, filmmaker and writer born in Lebanon in 1975. He studied communication at the European Graduate School, Saas - Fee Wallis, Switzerland, and majored in media studies at the New School University, New York. His films include Wish You Were Here (2006), Memories of Ras Beirut (2006), Tell Me Something (2006), Sa Carapace (2006), Transit Visa with Akram Zaatari (2001), Shameless Transmissions (2000), and Once (1998). He co-edited the following books on photography and video: Performing Images with Ziad Antar (2006), In-Pose with Diana Dilworth (2003), and Transit Visa with Akram Zaatari (2001).
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